Sacramento Bee (blog)Sacramento wants to become a “bee haven”Sacramento Bee (blog)Sacramento is going to the bees. The City Council on Tuesday will vote on a resolution to make the city a “Honey Bee Haven,” a place where bees are protected from pesticides, are provided year-round clean food and water and given shelter. It also means ...

COW offers free water-wise workshops in MarchWoodland RecordAt the March 11 session, Christine Casey of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven will describe how to support native pollinator populations by including pollinator habitat in drought-tolerant landscapes.

USDA Approves "Untested, Inherently Risky" GMO AppleTruth-OutSome of the scientists also pointed out that GMO apples will likely lead to even greater use of pesticides, on a product that (unless it's organic) already tests positive for 42 pesticides, according to the Pesticide Action Network's analysis of the ...

SustainableBusiness.comGMO News: Arctic Apple and Enogen CornSustainableBusiness.comApples already test positive for 42 pesticides unless they are organic, says Pesticide Action Network. "Recent research shows that dsRNAs can transfer from plants to humans and other animals through food. The biotech industry has always claimed that ...

French TribuneActivists demand clarity on GMO scienceFrench TribuneServal groups including Consumers Union, Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth and Pesticide Action Network said that there is a need for more clarity on the issue and where the scientific community stands on the matter does. The groups pointed ...

French TribuneActivists demand clarity on GMO scienceFrench TribuneServal groups including Consumers Union, Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth and Pesticide Action Network said that there is a need for more clarity on the issue and where the scientific community stands on the matter does. The groups pointed ...

Be Honest With GMO Safety Consensus - Media Toldspyghana.comScientist representatives of groups including Consumers Union, Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth and Pesticide Action Network are among over 300 scientists who signed the statement, “No consensus on GMO safety”, which has recently been ...

Care2.comHow to Make Sense of Sustainable Coffee LabelsCare2.com... the most toxic chemicals including anything banned by the Environmental Protection Agency, World Health Organization Class 1, the European Union, chemicals on the Pesticide Action Network list, the Dirty Dozen or listed under the Stockholm convention.

Experts turn down insecticide applicationENDS Europe (subscription)The biocides committee's decision was welcomed by Pesticide Action Network, which said it was “good to see that [the committee] takes the environment and the rules seriously”. “Triflumuron is very toxic for the aquatic environment and toxic for birds ...